Blank for covering extension-edge boxes.



No. 781,766. PATENTED FEB. 7, 1905. B. B. GAWTHRAY.

BLANK FOR COVERING EXTENSION EDGE BOXES.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 16.1903.

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L MAB/W (MA UNITED STATES Patented February 7, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ENOOH BLAKELEY OAWTHRAY, OF BROUKTON, h IASSAOHUSETTIS, AS-

SIGNOR TO ARTHUR HAYYVOOD ALGER AND JOSEPH ALGER, OF

BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BLANK FOR COVERING EXTENSION-EDGE BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,766, dated February7, 1905.

Application filed July 16, 1903. Serial No. 165,809.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ENOCH BLAKELEY (Jaw- 'IHRAY, a subject of KingEdward VII of Great Britain, residing at Broekton, county of Plymouth,and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Blanks for Covering Extension-Edge Boxes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to covering-blanks for paper boxes, andparticularly to blanks :for covering boxes having an extension edge. Ithas been customary heretofore in the manufacture of these boxes to coverthe different parts of the box with separate pieces and usually to do sobefore the parts are united. Thus it was the practice to cover thebottom with the extension edge before applying it to the box, and afterit was so covered and united the box sides were covered by a separatestrip pasted around it and fitted down against the extension edge. This,however, was expensive and generally unsatisfactory, as it did not makea neatly-finished box even under the best conditions and most carefuloperatives.

The present invention contemplates the application of the covering-paperin one piece and provides for that purpose a blank so shaped as to leaveportions arranged and adapted to lit and cover all the parts of the boxdesired.

In the drawings, in which like letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts throughout, Figure l is a plan of the blank. Fig. 2is a view of the covered box. Fig. 3 is a modified form of blank, andFig. 4 the box to which it is applied.

The blank consists of a body portion B, inclosed by the dotted lines 1and of the size of the extension-bottom of the box. Surrounding thisbody B are arranged extension-covering portions 1), shaped to cover theextension edge, and outside of these are side sections O, having ontheir ends extensions 0 for overturning on the upper edges of the box.

O represents flaps for turning the corners, and the sides bearing themare bent up and pasted before the other sides are brought up.

Fig. 3 indicates a modification of the blank shown in Fig. 1 for aneight-sided box, as shown in Fig. 4:. It will be noted that thealternate side sections are provided with the corner-flaps, and thesesections in applying the blank to the box must be pasted down first.This is for convenience in operating, as it has been found desirable toturn up the flaps in opposite pairs; but the principle involved in thisis the same as in the four-sided box, and obviously the presentinvention can be adapted to boxes of any shape or any number of sides,the shape, number, and arrangement of sections and flaps being adaptedto the parts to be covered.

Although the extension is mentioned herein as on the bottom of the boxand is so shown, the cover, with its extension-top, is intended to beincluded also, as its construction and application are the same.

What I therefore claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A covering-blank for an extension-edge box consisting of a bodyportion, substantially of the shape of the bottom of the box, andflapped portions adapted to cover the sides of the box, andextension-covering portions between said flaps and said body.

2. A covering-blank for an extension-edge box consisting of abottom-covering portion, side-covering portion and extension-coveringportions.

8. A covering-blank for an extension-edge box consisting of abottom-covering portion having flaps on each of its sides andextension-covering portions located on each side between said bodyportion and said flaps.

A. A covering-blank for an extension-edge box consisting of a bodyportion shaped to fit the bottom of the box, extension covering portionsshaped to fold over and cover the extension edge of said box, and sideflaps shaped to cover the sides of the box, and wings upon the upperedge of said fiapped portions to overturn and bind the upper edge of thebox side.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ENOCII BLAKELEY CAW'IIIRAY.

\Vitnesses:

\VILLIAM G. Rowe, ELMER H. Furrounn.

